Evolution game, nothing more than that!

Sakurajima Mai nodded.

"Is that the Hugh Jackman movie, Van Helsing?"

Yamasaki An asked in a low voice.

The three of them looked at each other and nodded to confirm this.

Chapter 82: Selecting Equipment

"Van Helsing", a movie that has appeared in both Yi Shen's previous life and this life.

Although its basic story framework is similar to other "Van Helsing defeats Dracula" stories, it still contains many memorable points.

For example, the ancestor Valarius, who swore an oath to God and betrayed all his descendants.

It was after seeing this scene that Yi Shen confirmed that they had entered the world of the "Van Helsing" movie this time.

Of course, movies are movies and reality is reality, so they don’t think that all subsequent developments will be exactly the same as in the movies.

At least, there were no such "assistants" in the original movie. There was only a technical logistics staff member who followed Van Helsing.

Knowing the plot can only make them mentally prepared for what may happen next, but it does not mean that they have gained an absolute advantage.

In fact, this idea was soon realized.

"Dracula only had one wife, Minnie Harker, who was transformed into a vampire by him hundreds of years ago. Apart from that, there is no record of other women being transformed and staying by his side."

Yi Shen noticed this passage in a document describing Dracula's life and immediately told the two girls.

"That doesn't match the movie. I remember him having three blood brides in the movie."

Sakurajima Mai frowned slightly. The worst situation really happened. The plot of this mission was not exactly the same as the movie. These seemingly plausible contents in it not only could not help, but would also greatly interfere with their judgment!

"We can't blindly believe the plot anymore. Everything must be based on the intelligence gained from actual investigations!"

Yi Shen made this decision.

"It can only be the."

Sakurajima Mai and Yamasaki An nodded and sighed helplessly.

However, it is easy to say, but it is impossible to forget the plot you know. Even if you deliberately don't think about it, the existing cognition in your heart will still affect your judgment and may cause them to make wrong decisions.

But there is nothing we can do about it, we can only try our best.

Afterwards, the three of them checked the remaining documents and found that, just as the cardinal had said, there was very little information about Dracula. The previous description of his marital relationship was already a rare piece of information, and the description of his abilities was even more vague and contained no valuable content.

After putting down the last roll of documents, Yi Shen looked at the two girls who also had nothing to gain and sighed. It seemed that the evolution game did not leave them too many loopholes this time.

At this time, a priest came over and said to the three people:

"The bishop asked me to take you to the equipment area. Please feel free to use any weapons or equipment you like."

Hearing this, the three of them were immediately cheered up and hurriedly followed.

Since we didn't gain much in terms of intelligence, we'll make up for it with equipment!

I still remember that the various weapons Van Helsing used in this movie were quite distinctive, so maybe there are things they can use.

As soon as they arrived at the equipment area, the three saw Van Helsing holding a crossbow under the guidance of a young priest, shooting dozens of arrows at the target in a few seconds.

Well, this is the pneumatic crossbow in the movie that is clearly ahead of its time.

Immediately afterwards, a heavy machine gun nearby opened fire, and the continuous hail of bullets shattered an entire solid wooden target into pieces.

"Wow, I didn't expect there would be heavy machine guns in this era!"

Yamasaki An couldn't help but sigh.

"In fact, the heavy machine gun was invented in 1884, and the plot of the movie takes place during the construction of the Eiffel Tower, which is between 1887 and 1889. It is normal to have a heavy machine gun."

Yi Shen whispered, correcting the girl's past misconception.

"Ah, you're here."

At this moment, the young priest who was circling around Van Helsing saw Yi Shen and the others coming and immediately came over enthusiastically:

"I've heard about your deeds. Although you're not as famous as Van Helsing, you're all experts in fighting monsters. What equipment do you want? Just tell me!"

As he spoke, he dragged Yi Shen towards a workbench on the side, where many objects were piled.

"Come here, garlic, silver stakes, silver-plated swords and silver bullets, holy water, and the repeating crossbow that Van Helsing was just using. Take whatever you want!"

"Hmm...give me a silver-plated dagger. Do you have a silver-plated throwing knife?"

Mai Sakurajima looked around and was the first to make a request.

“Yes, yes, all!”

Upon hearing this, the young priest immediately took out a box from the pile of junk with great interest. After opening it, he found it was filled with short swords, daggers and throwing knives of various sizes and shapes, and all of them were silver-plated.

Mai Sakurajima nodded with satisfaction and accepted the box of weapons.

"Hmm... Silver Bullets, what calibers do you have here?"

After thinking for a while, Yamasaki An asked this question.

"Bullets? Oh, of course. I have 11×60mm Mauser bullets, British .577/450 bullets, and the latest 8×50mm French smokeless powder bullets. Which one do you want?"

Yamasaki Anzu: "..."

She finally realized one thing, that is, this world is still before World War I, and the 7.62, 5.56, and 9mm bullets that match the guns in her hands have not yet appeared!

"Forget it, you should get me one of these rapid-fire crossbows. You should have some in stock, right?"

Since she couldn't use a gun, she could use a crossbow. It just so happened that the Ada Wang character card she obtained was also a master of crossbows, and in actual combat, it was not much worse than using firearms.

"Oh, no problem, no problem!"

Hearing that the other party was going to use his most proud invention, the young priest became even happier. He quickly found a second brand new crossbow from the pile of junk, along with several quivers filled with silver arrows, and handed them to Yamasaki An.

After taking the crossbow, Yamasaki An took a silver-plated half-sword from the weapon rack and used it as her melee weapon, thus completing her selection.

Then, the priest looked at Yi Shen, who had not yet made a choice:

"Sir, do you have anything in mind?"

"Well, I want these two swords, and these silver bullets... Do you have any in the caliber for that machine gun over there?"

Yi Shen first selected two silver-plated two-handed swords from the weapon rack, and then turned his attention to the heavy machine gun that had just been tested next to him.

"Uh, that machine gun bullet? Yes, I do, but you're going to Romania, right? It's not easy to carry this stuff over such a long distance!"

The young priest was a little confused, but still answered Yi Shen's question.

"It's okay. I have a way to solve the portability problem. You just need to prepare the silver bullets of the corresponding caliber."

Yi Shen said this.

"…Okay, if you insist."

The priest shrugged and did as he was told.

Chapter 83 The Cursed Land

Now, this is the third mission that Yi Shen has experienced in the evolution game.

He also increasingly felt that with every mission, the Evolution Game would impose subtle restrictions and help on the players.

Just like this time, the silver bullets that were crucial in fighting vampires were limited to a few ancient calibers, making the many modern thermal weapons carried by Yi Shen and Yamasaki An ineffective and greatly limiting their firepower.

But at the same time, the evolution game did not do things to the extreme. In this equipment selection scene, a heavy machine gun was left. As long as the player can find a way to take it away, he can still gain an advantage in firepower.

And it just so happened that Yi Shen actually had the ability to take this heavy machine gun away - his space expansion backpack.

So, under the stunned gaze of the young priest, Yi Shen stuffed the extremely heavy heavy machine gun, including the gun and the mount, into an ordinary-sized backpack.

"What kind of technology is this?"

The priest immediately came to Yi Shen's backpack, looked around it, and almost put his head in to take a look.

"Can you tell me how you did it? Was it magic?"

He asked hurriedly, looking at Yi Shen with fanatical curiosity.

Yi Shen had no choice but to push the other person's head away and nodded:

"That's right, it's magic, my unique skill."

The young priest then realized that he seemed to be a little too excited, so he smiled awkwardly and stepped aside.

Van Helsing on the side also saw this scene, but he was not as excited as the young priest. Instead, he was not surprised at all - he had seen and killed countless inhuman monsters, and he had seen similar abilities before!

"Okay, if everyone is ready, let's go!"

As he spoke, he carried a large package and walked towards the exit.

Seeing this, Yi Shen and others behind him also followed with the supplies they had selected.

……

Half a month later, Van Helsing and Yi Shen and his party were already riding horses across Romania.

Yes, in this era, the speed of traveling is so slow.

They first spent three days rushing from the Vatican to the coast of Italy's east coast, then spent a day crossing the Adriatic Sea by boat, and then went ashore to the Balkan Peninsula. They then changed to horses and galloped all the way, taking about ten days to enter Romania.

Of course, there are faster modes of transportation, such as trains.

Unfortunately, the first "Orient Express" route of this era had just been opened, and long-distance rail transportation between countries was still a rare thing. In addition, Van Helsing had long been wanted by European countries because of his overly "high-profile" demon-killing methods, so he was not suitable for taking the train as a means of transportation.

Although Yi Shen and the other two were not wanted, it was obviously impossible for them to abandon Van Helsing and take the train by themselves, so they could only ride horses together and suffer.

——To be honest, riding a horse itself is not difficult, but riding a horse for a long time is really not a comfortable thing.

In other words, these three are not ordinary people. Yi Shen has cell manipulation, Sakurajima Mai has alien bloodline, and Yamasaki An has enhanced clothing protection. Otherwise, the three of them would have worn out their thighs from riding for more than ten days in a row for a long time.

However, after entering Romania, Van Helsing slowed down.

He began to carefully observe the surrounding environment along the way, stopping from time to time to collect some plant and soil samples, and sometimes even tasting one or two himself.

Yi Shen and the others who followed behind were also curious when they saw this, so they asked:

"We noticed you were observing your surroundings. Did you find anything?"

"Haven't you noticed? This land is saturated with darkness and curse! The bishop is right. This is indeed a cursed land, a perfect place for all kinds of dark creatures to grow and hibernate!"

"Darkness and Curse..."

Yi Shen quietly opened his elemental vision and discovered that the concentration of various negative energies in the surrounding environment was indeed much higher than in other places.

In other words, he didn't have the habit of keeping his elemental vision open all the time, which was why he didn't notice this at the first time.

However, Yi Shen soon realized that he discovered this because of his unique elemental vision, but Van Helsing, who did not seem to have this special vision, was able to discover it earlier than him - the other party was indeed a true expert in this area, much better than these fake "experts"!

Secretly reminding himself to pay more attention to the surrounding environment in the future and not to rely too much on elemental vision, Yi Shen humbly asked Van Helsing how to distinguish this kind of "darkness and curse" from the environment.

Van Helsing was also very generous and did not hesitate to share this valuable experience. He generously taught the relevant tricks to several people.

Although much of the content is difficult to describe in concrete terms and is extremely dependent on Van Helsing's own "feelings", even the remaining parts still benefited Yi Shen and the others a lot.

Later on, the one who learned the fastest was not Yi Shen, who had elemental vision, but Sakurajima Mai!

It seemed that the keen intuition brought by her "pioneer" bloodline was similar to Van Helsing's "feeling". She soon got the hang of it and gradually became able to distinguish the anomalies in the surrounding environment.

"It feels like the power of this dark curse is getting stronger the further we go..."

She said this after observing the road for a while.

"You made a good judgment."

Van Helsing glanced back at the girl and nodded approvingly:

"These dark curses have their source. Judging from what we've observed along the way, it's very likely coming from our destination."

"You mean, this curse comes from Dracula?"

Yi Shen immediately realized what the other party meant:

"Is he that powerful? He can actually change the environment of an entire country by himself?"

"Although I find it a little hard to believe, I'm afraid this is true."

Van Helsing nodded solemnly, then asked the three of them a question: